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About meI started buying books because you can't smoke in libraries and now I've quit smoking. So I buy books to replace smoking in a way, because I can't go to coffee shops and watch anyone smoking or even smell it for too long. So I like libraries now that I can not afford the books they contain. I go to book stores and library sales and try finding things online and sometimes I get lucky. I'm worried about moving them because I don't get paid that much.

About my libraryO books
Granary
Chax Press
Burning Deck Chapbooks
archipelago books
a+bend press
Futurepoem books
Apogee Press
Belladonna Books
Flood Editions
green integer
New Directions
Wesleyan University Press
Alice James Books
Dalkey Archive
University of California
Kelsey Street Press
Ugly Duckling Books
Jargon
Grossman Publishers

GroupsHoustonians, Karl Shapiro and Company

Favorite authorsCharles Baudelaire, Samuel Beckett, Anne Carson, Gilles Deleuze, Ronald Johnson, Charles Olson (Shared favorites)

Homepagehttp://www.whatbirdsgiveup.com

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Real nameBeep Beep

LocationTucson AZ

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Member sinceOct 31, 2005

Currently readingStone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea by Diane Glancy
Lorine Niedecker : Collected Works by Lorine Niedecker
Selected Poems (New California Poetry, 3) by Fanny Howe
Sphericity by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
The Maximus poems by Charles Olson
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Cake (Selected Poems by Doreen Fitzgerald) by Doreen Fitzgerald

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As We Know: Poems by John Ashbery

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Unclaimed experience : trauma, narrative, and history by Cathy Caruth

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Facts for Visitors: Poems (New California Poetry, 12) by Srikanth Reddy

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Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes

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First Course in Turbulence (Pitt Poetry Series) by Dean Young

Very few people here reading Scalapino. Have you gotten her final book? I hope to find a copy soon.

posted by holyjames at 3:38 pm (EST) on Dec 21, 2010

You don't know me!

posted by JimmyChanga at 3:00 pm (EST) on Feb 2, 2007

We share some the same tastes in poetry-- Tate, Gluck, Simic, Dean Young among others. If I might be so forward as to suggest someone, earlier Goldbarth is wonderful. You have an impressive collection of poetry.

posted by abirdman at 4:51 pm (EST) on Dec 29, 2006

I love your review of Samperi's The Prefiguration, and I wanted to tell you you have a great library!

posted by languagehat at 2:53 pm (EST) on Dec 23, 2006

just sayin hi..i like your booklist...

posted by fairbrook at 2:43 am (EST) on Nov 6, 2006

Congrats on not smoking. And reading a lot. :-)

-Rus

posted by rdixon98 at 1:42 pm (EST) on Sep 19, 2006

"As it is, she is sort of smooshy and they are all love poems and they try to be something in leather but really it's not that, it's sort of nothing they way the poems are and the way she was too young to have them in print when they were printed, so the book is ehh and ehh and oh well."

I laughed, and laughed, and laughed. You just saved me the trouble of forcing myself to read this book someday and then forcing myself to come up with a similar paragraph to convince myself that it wasn't all a complete waste of time, x100 similar occasions in the past.

You like Stein, I'm guessing. I never really understood how -fast- that way can be; something I rather envy right now.

posted by asquonk at 11:23 pm (EST) on Jul 19, 2006

I have just started adding my library. It is nice to come across someone from AZ with a voracious appetite for reading.

posted by ponder at 11:25 am (EST) on Jul 16, 2006

Nice to hear from you, hope you enjoyed the Dusie chap!

posted by mark_lamoureux at 3:54 pm (EST) on Jul 14, 2006

Good to see another person who likes the poetry of James Wright and Adam Zagajewski.

posted by southwestpoet at 9:20 am (EST) on Jul 14, 2006

Many of your 'the best' books are my favorites!

posted by amarnath at 4:02 am (EST) on Jun 17, 2006

this site reminds me that people read poetry -- good to see armantrout et al on others' shelves. rockin' list.

posted by deliriumslibrarian at 11:56 am (EST) on Apr 16, 2006

what you said... don't ready much poetry and was wondering how JT was regarded by those in the know. Some arresting imagery here and there, I have to say.

posted by sluggo at 12:15 pm (EST) on Nov 7, 2005

james tate - please help me out here... a colossus of American Poetry or teh wanker?

posted by sluggo at 12:07 am (EST) on Nov 7, 2005

Thanks for your kind comment, dawnpen. About Commons: I had a hard time with it at first, but the final section, Pollen Fossil Record, still has me returing to it a year later. And the ideas she explores there helped to open the earlier poems for me. By the by, your poetry collection: amazing.

posted by somethingslant at 6:18 pm (EST) on Nov 6, 2005

Excellent collection.

posted by paigecm at 12:00 am (EST) on Nov 6, 2005

Thanks for the Swensen recommendation! I hadn't heard of Oh, so I might not have come across it otherwise.

posted by HouseholdOpera at 5:09 pm (EST) on Nov 3, 2005

Another Ashbery/Barthes/Carson fan! I commend your taste. :)

posted by HouseholdOpera at 10:32 am (EST) on Nov 1, 2005

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